Abstract
We consider a class of nonsmooth convex optimization problems where the objective function is the composition of a strongly convex differentiable function with a linear mapping, regularized by the sum of both ℓ 1-norm and ℓ 2-norm of the optimization variables. This class of problems arise naturally from applications in sparse group Lasso, which is a popular technique for variable selection. An effective approach to solve such problems is by the Proximal Gradient Method (PGM). In this paper we prove a local error bound around the optimal solution set for this problem and use it to establish the linear convergence of the PGM method without assuming strong convexity of the overall objective function.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 163-186 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of the Operations Research Society of China |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61179033, DMS-1015346). Part of this work was performed during a research visit by the first author to the University of Minnesota, with support from the Education Commission of Beijing Municipal Government.
Keywords
- Error bound
- Linear convergence
- Proximal gradient method
- Sparse group Lasso